Jason and The American
People’s Party are offering.

National Service will offer voluntary, non-combat work here in the United States for citizens aged 18 or older. We will do hard physical work: building infrastructure, repairing what is broken, growing food, and cleaning up damaged land. Pay will be $30 an hour plus benefits for a 32-hour week. After two consecutive years of service, we will earn a one-time, tax-free $100,000 payment to use as we choose. We can stay employed in the service afterward. The stay-at-home work option will be only for single parents. Learning jobs will include three eight-month rotations; the branch will also have permanent administrative and leadership jobs. All military branches will receive the $30 hourly minimum and restored benefits, and current enlisted personnel will receive a $10,000 bonus for every two years of service. National Service grants will supplement small-business employee wages during the first five years of implementation. Once we pass this act, I will do the physical work after Congress too.

Americare will cover all citizens, including us here in Ohio, from head to toe: medical care, dental, vision, and end-of-life care. Coverage will follow our prescribers’ judgment. We will train more caregivers to reduce waiting times, modernize hospitals, and make medical records available for accurate care anywhere in the country. I don’t have health insurance today. I need this coverage too.

If an employer replaces us with artificial intelligence, it will owe each displaced worker five years of severance at full pay and owe the federal government $25,000 per worker. The act will cover displacement during the five years before it passes, too. New data centers will receive approval only when they cause no impact on local residents’ water, power, or environment. Existing facilities will have access to National Service assistance to upgrade or relocate so they meet that standard, including here in Ohio.

We need reliable power for our homes, our work, and the businesses we build here in Ohio. Over 20 years, we will build nuclear power and supporting infrastructure to replace fossil fuels and meet future demand. We will build safe fuel-enrichment facilities for domestic use and exports to our allies. Actual energy needs will determine how many plants we build.

We will establish American English as the country’s official language. Six border entry towns—three in the south and one each in the east, west, and north—will provide places to live and work while immigrants learn English, American culture, and citizenship materials. The towns will offer language and citizenship testing. Online courses will also serve immigrants already living and working in the United States, including our neighbors in Ohio.

When Congress or the President declares war, we will have a nationwide vote within two weeks to decide whether it continues. The government will disclose the pertinent facts before that vote. Those of us serving in the military will be eligible to vote too. Our families will have a say in whether we keep sending people to fight.

We will fully fund our public schools in Ohio: meals, transportation, teacher salary increases, materials, building maintenance, and technology. School administrators and board members will face individual penalties for mismanaging public funds. National Service will offer local preschool childcare. For Ohio residents attending an Ohio public state college, four years of tuition will be capped at $60,000 total.

If we rent in Ohio, monthly rent will be capped at 1.5% of the home’s purchase price, with rent increases tied to the median wage. Corporations outside the housing business will be limited to three single-family homes; housing corporations will be limited to 20. They will have two years after passage to put excess properties back on the market. Failure to comply will mean forfeiture without reimbursement or tax relief. Apartment buildings will be treated separately from these single-family ownership limits.

We will get a detailed explanation of every factor used to calculate our credit scores. Credit agencies will have to make reported corrections within 14 days of receiving them. When we apply for a home, a car, or credit here in Ohio, we will be able to see how the score was calculated.

Ohio manufacturers will have access to grants and National Service assistance to update equipment, technologies, and processes and minimize pollution from manufacturing byproducts. We will put that work into our factories and the communities around them.

The federal government will need a national vote before injecting money directly into the stock market. We will reform the market to favor individual investors. Members of Congress, their families, and companies they own will be banned from trading stocks from election until two years after their term ends. That will include me and my family.

We will fund artificial intelligence research in medicine, energy production, physics, and technology for the public’s benefit. Those advances will serve those of us living and working here in Ohio too.

Ohio farmers will have access to grants and National Service assistance. We will use National Service for conservation and cleanup on farmland and public wildlands with park police and park rangers. We will also work state by state to clean up public lands, towns, and cities, including our communities in Ohio.

We will cap an individual’s cash and other personal wealth available to spend at $1 billion, with everything above that taxed. Borrowed money that can be spent will count too. Owners will keep their companies, shares, voting rights, and physical property; rising company values alone will not trigger the cap. We will close income and investment tax loopholes, tie corporate tax rates to the share of profits paid to employees, and cap profits on government contracts. An Ohio business owner will keep control of their business under these rules.

Artificial intelligence will be banned from independently authorizing or carrying out offensive attacks. Physical and digital weapons will require direct human authorization before engaging a target or releasing a payload. Artificial intelligence will be banned from offensive weapons on American soil and from domestic policing by local or federal law enforcement. Strictly defensive automated systems that intercept incoming foreign attacks will remain permitted. Those protections will apply to us in Ohio too.

The federal government will be barred from using artificial intelligence to analyze citizens’ daily movements. Federal, state, and local law enforcement will be banned from facial recognition networks, tracking people through identifying physical features, and continuous mass surveillance in public spaces. Companies will be banned from supplying or operating those systems for municipal governments, including here in Ohio.

We will rank candidates in order of preference in federal, state, and local elections. We will have online state and federal voting and secure internet polling on major policy issues. Polling will give us a way to express our priorities between elections. Our votes for president here in Ohio will count in a national popular vote, replacing the Electoral College.

We will set strict campaign spending limits and eliminate hidden political funding and groups that raise unlimited money to influence elections. Elected officials and their families will be banned from trading stocks or accepting gifts while in office. Those rules will apply to me and my family too. Representatives’ salaries will increase only after their first term so more people, including Ohioans who aren’t wealthy, can afford to serve.

We will restore the Fairness Doctrine, requiring broadcasters to present contrasting views on controversial issues of public importance. News networks will face substantial financial penalties for intentionally broadcasting dishonest information or manipulative propaganda, including the news we receive here in Ohio.

We will protect our right to repair and truly own what we buy instead of being forced to lease it. That includes the phones, cars, and farm equipment we use here in Ohio.